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December 13, 2016

Goldman Sachs alumni will have the 2 top Trump economic policy jobs

http://www.vox.com/2016/12/9/13898984/gary-cohn-goldman-sachs-trump
"And yet in many ways, the only surprise here should be that there is any surprise. Trump’s stated policy agenda during the 2016 campaign was and always has been a banker’s wish list, a plan to shower the financial services industry with deregulation and then help out hedge funds with a special tax cut. The divergence between the Trump show on Twitter and a hard-right governing agenda in the Cabinet was always visible in the gap between Trump’s wild rally rhetoric and his sober, conventionally conservative policy speeches. The problem is nobody paid attention."